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Topic: Free Comic Book Day is Saturday, May 7th!!! (Read 3316 times)

Anyone going to take advantage of this and go to their local comic shop and load up?

I am actually sitting at a table in a comic shop in Longmont, Colorado with 2 other aspiring or established comic book artists to do sketches for kids of all ages, do some self-promo and some inking demonstrations.

I know that there is an ROTS title available on FCBD, so that's reason enough! No reason not to go and get some cool free stuff. Most shops will also be having amazing sales and deals on back issues (the shop I'll be at - Time Warp Comics - is doing a 50% off back issues and massive toy sale and clearance.

So, get off your butts and make it out this Saturday to your nearest comic store and enjoy the free!

I'll definately be going - although I probably won't benefit from any big sales. I really would like to pick up the Clone Wars TPB 5 and up, but the guy who sells comics out here basically dropped all of the Star Wars comics and TPB's... said that they weren't selling very well for him. Which means I stick with Books-A-Million or Amazon.com (who don't really care about comics).

He will have some of his Star Wars busts and figures on sale, though - so I'll probably score at least something besides the free comic...

This is a little off the topic, but I recently noticed that my local WalMart has a boxed edition of the original Marvel comics adaptions of the OTC films. They were on sale for like $21.99. Not too shabby. I'd be happy to see what I can do to help you get SW graphic novel/collections. Anything to try and keep people from buying GN or TPBs at a corporate franchise...

We had a few troopers at the comic shop here. Star Wars was VERY poplular thisyear, and we went with that (not that my arm needed twisting ).Every kid that got a SW comic wanted it signed by the troopers! We hadn`texpected that and it worked out great. I think we had 3 comics left out of the 500FCBD SW comics we got.

The press showed up and loved seeing the troopers there as well, they lookedgreat on TV, lol

I spent 7 hours at a table and drew about 6 or 7 drawings. The SW comics were gone quick. I didn't even get one! I also had a request to draw Boba Fett and Yoda and both drawings came out quite good. I was in that zone where time doesn't exist and really into my drawing and I actually am proud of what I ended up with. I sat next to Jeff Lafferty who is a local artist, but really amazing. I felt insignificant next to him, but when he told me he thought my work was cool, I felt better. I mean, he does it for a living and has the luxury of drawing every day and honing his skill. He has done a few Marvel titles and now is focused mainly on freelance illustration (oil paintings) and self-published comic stuff. Check out his stuff at:

I spent 7 hours at a table and drew about 6 or 7 drawings. The SW comics were gone quick. I didn't even get one! I also had a request to draw Boba Fett and Yoda and both drawings came out quite good. I was in that zone where time doesn't exist and really into my drawing and I actually am proud of what I ended up with. I sat next to Jeff Lafferty who is a local artist, but really amazing. I felt insignificant next to him, but when he told me he thought my work was cool, I felt better. I mean, he does it for a living and has the luxury of drawing every day and honing his skill. He has done a few Marvel titles and now is focused mainly on freelance illustration (oil paintings) and self-published comic stuff. Check out his stuff at:

I mean I'm struggling to get a drawing done and do okay on it and he's whipping out these ridiculously nice drawings in no time. But, it was fun and cool. I had a sign that said:

Thomas Studholme- not published -not famous- just a guy who draws pretty well, loves comics and knows the owner well.

People got a laugh from my self-deprication.

It did wonders to motivate me to keep drawing and get things going again!

I`ll trade ya a SW FCBD Comic for a Stormie or Clonetrooper drawing Or, I`ll just send ya one. PM with your addy. I know we have at least 2 left.Towards the end of the day, we kept a small stack behind the counter for kidswho wanted them signed.

I was lucky enough to get 1 of the 3 mini stickfa FCBD figures the comic store I 'appeared ' at had sent to them. Were they plentiful at your place or not? I'm just curious about how rare they are and whether it was a fluke in my area or a national phenomenon.

I was lucky enough to get 1 of the 3 mini stickfa FCBD figures the comic store I 'appeared ' at had sent to them. Were they plentiful at your place or not? I'm just curious about how rare they are and whether it was a fluke in my area or a national phenomenon.

I'll contact you soon to work out details for a trade.

We had 3 or 4 bags of the FCBD Minimates, and they went very fast. Same withthe Batman heroclix. I think we went through 5 bags of them. Neither I wouldconsider rare, just depends how many were ordered at your local shop.They are still available for order, actually.